KIRKPATRICK, William Huntington, (son of William Sebring Kirkpatrick),
a Representative from Pennsylvania;
born in Easton, Northampton County, Pa., October 2, 1885;
attended the public schools;
was graduated from Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., in 1905 and attended the law department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1905 and 1906;
was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law in Easton, Pa., in 1908;
served in the First World War as major and lieutenant colonel, judge advocate, and was a member of the board of review of courts-martial, United States Army;
elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1923);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Sixty-eighth Congress in 1922;
resumed the practice of law;
appointed on March 3, 1927, judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and became chief judge in 1933;
became senior judge when he retired in 1958;
died in Cumberstone, Md., November 28, 1970;
interment in Christ Church Cemetery, Owensville, Md.